All right, Com$tock, you bitch. You want me to write more posts about video games? How about this: the Wii-lust has begun.

Ever so often, I’ll become obsessed with a product, and I cannot eat or sleep until that product becomes mine. The last time this happened was with the Nintendo DS, the latest version of the Gameboy. This dude Norbert who I used to work with (yes, that’s his review of War Games, and incidentally, he’s written and recorded some pretty amazing hip-hop tracks) had the DS with this game Pac Pix. In Pac Pix, you use a pencil-like thingy to draw Pac-mans on the screen of the DS. The Pac-mans then do what Pac-mans have done for time eternal - eat ghosts. It was totally new and unusual and I had to have it. The only trouble is, I get really nervous dropping a lot of cash at once, particularly on things like video game systems that I know will not enhance my productivity. I spent weeks and weeks thinking about nothing but the DS, stopping at the video game store after work, until finally I bought one on eBay off of some 10 year old kid who “was bored with it.”

Now, the Nintendo Wii is coming out, and I find myself stopping by Nintendo.com a few times a day to gaze longingly at it. I don’t know if I can wait for eBay on this one. Sarah, if you’re reading this, please know that we may not be able to afford groceries for a few weeks in the near future.